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December 30, 2008
12 Million Plus Illegal Aliens, But NYT Is Shocked by Number of Detention Centers "Few in this threadbare little mill town gave much Fewer Detainees Sedated on Return Flights from U.S. "Federal immigration officials, over the past year, have New U.S. Population Record for New Years' ""The nation’s population is projected to Border Crossing Attempts Fall With Enforcement and Bad Economy "The Border Patrol says it's now catching about 2,000 |
thought to the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility, the maximum-security jail beside the public ball fields at the edge of town. Even when it expanded and added barbed wire, Wyatt was just the backdrop for Little League games, its name stitched on the caps of the team it sponsored," the New York Times writes. "In this mostly Latino city, hardly anyone had realized that in addition to detaining the accused drug dealers and mobsters everyone heard about, the jail held hundreds of people charged with no crime — people caught in the nation’s crackdown on illegal immigration. Fewer still knew that Wyatt was a portal into an expanding network of other jails, bigger and more remote, all propelling detainees toward deportation with little chance to protest."
dramatically curtailed the controversial practice of sedating deportees with powerful anti-psychotic medication. The move followed court challenges and a public outcry over the practice, which often involved the use of Haldol, a drug used to treat schizophrenia. Data collected through Freedom of Information Act requests by The Dallas Morning News show that Immigration and Customs Enforcement sedated only 10 people in the past fiscal year. Haldol was used in only three cases," the Dallas Morning News writes. "U.S. officials defended the sedation policy but declined to discuss it in detail, including the frequency with which sedation has been used, which led The News to request the information through the Freedom of Information Act."
reach 305,529,237 on New Year’s Day, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. That’s nearly a one percent increase from last New Year’s. In January 2009, one birth is expected to occur every eight seconds and one death every 12 seconds. Immigration is expected to add one person every 36 seconds in January," the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.
illegal border crossers every day, down from more than 4,000 a day eight years ago, reports CBS News correspondent Bill Whitaker. The government says that's a barometer indicating that fewer people are trying to sneak across the border. 'We've seen a collapse in the number of people who come across the border illegally,' says Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff," CBS News reports. "'We've actually seen record low levels we haven't realized in over 30 years and we think that's been achieved through the combination of tactical, the increase of border patrol agents, as well as the technology we've employed along the border with Mexico,' says Jay Ahern of Immigration and Customs Enforcement."